Galactic Stepping Stones

My theory starts in our own Solar system. As the sun expands and heats up, it also heats up the planets surrounding it, albeit at an extremely slow rate. Life in our solar system started in one of two ways if you remove religious beliefs... Either the fundamental building blocks of life were transported here by asteroids and comets etc or life itself was planted here by life elsewhere in the universe... that is pretty much fact.

Now, if we look at Venus, there is reasonable evidence to suggest that it may have once been like Earth. I believe that life once existed on Venus. At that time, Earth was much like Mars is today, cold, baron and desolate. The lack of atmosphere allowed countless asteroid and comet impacts to bring water to Earth. As Venus began to warm, the evolution of the Venusian people and their technology allowed Terra-forming of their neighbouring planet to become possible. As Venus became less and less inhabitable, the Venusians started to plant life on Earth. Over many years an atmosphere was beginning to emerge, vegetation began to cover the vast planet until finally; it seemed that basic life on Earth should be possible. However, it would be too risky to put the Venusian people onto an alien world at this early stage. So first basic life forms were sent to Earth and then the reptiles of Venus were sent ahead of us, today known as the dinosaurs. If the dinosaurs were to thrive, so too would the Venusians and the other life on their planet. Dinosaurs which roamed the wildest areas of Venus were sent to roam the Earth for then next 160 million years or so while life on Venus continued. Earth would be left to mature and other life forms sent occasionally would evolve and take their part in the Terra-forming of planet Earth.

Finally, the time came for phase 2 of the project. Venus was becoming more hostile with every passing decade. Earth would be the next home of the extremely intelligent Venusians. First, they had to remove the dinosaurs which had thrived and evolved on Earth, as by now, they far outnumbered the Venusians and would pose too high a threat to the existing mammals. A fleet of incredibly large Venusian weapons were launched of which one impacted in the desert of modern day Arizona, the explosions and following nuclear winter, cleared most of the cold blooded reptile life while the warm blooded mammals managed to cling on to life.

As the skies cleared and the ice began to melt, a beautiful paradise was uncovered. The next few million years would be required for the Earth to recover and evolve life as it had on Venus to an extent that it would be sustainable for permanent intelligent life forms to colonise the planet and natural resources would accumulate. The diverse array of species which evolved on Earth included less advanced forms of human life from the early Homo-Erectus to the Homo-Neanderthals, all of whom were being monitored and studied closely by the Venusians until the time was right to begin colonisation

The first Venusians arrived on their giant inter-planetary Arks along with all of the species necessary for them to flourish around 200,000 years ago. The first landings were on the edge of a desert near the equator, which resembled the current climate of Venus. It was the right climate so adjustment was easy and far enough from the wild jungles of Africa where the early native-humans lived. Here they built Great Pyramids telling the story of their journey with the ability to communicate across the night sky to the bright star which was once home. For thousands of years, Civilisations began to emerge on Earth as generation after generation emigrated from Venus to Earth until eventually Venus became a lifeless, boiling planet of noxious gases and singed rocks.

Earth now faces that very same fate and over the next few million years, we will evolve and so will our technology. Many people will say that we can Terra-form Mars in hundreds of years but it will be thousands of years before we can permanently inhabit the red planet. As we evolve upon the past evolution of the Venusians, Earth Humans will make Mars habitable in millions of years less than it took our ancestors. However, first we must learn to lose our fixation with war and greed so that we can focus on working out the work of our ancestors. Only then will we be able to build on our limited knowledge of our past n order to save ourselves and move forward. When we go through this whole process again on Mars, the solar system will be tired and aged and we will then need to use everything we have learnt from our previous two baby steps to take our giant leap deep into the galaxy to continue our legacy.

We are just one of many groups of civilisations using nearby planets as stepping stones and migrating from place to place infinitely around our universe. It is only a matter of time before the cosmic Christopher Columbus stumbles upon something truly unimaginable.

Nice Post! Just wish we could be around for it all!

"human origins" is a very intriguing topic

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I think so, shame people aren't very interested!

At least the fact that no one has jumped on me to say it's a preposterous idea is something...